Limit falling speed

[Extex]

Is there someway to limit how fast the player falls?

[Skamiz Kazzarch]

I immagine you could use get_player_velocity() in globalstep to find out the current speed and if it's too fast use add_player_velocity() to slow the player down.
Relevant lua api: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/master/doc/lua_api.txt#L5673

Though I suspect it would still be somewhat janky it would probably prevent these situations where you are falling several hundres of block per second.

[warpnarget]

what if someone likes falling hundreds of blocks per second

[Linuxdirk]

Lower gravity by using the set_physics_override function for that player.

https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/154080c8836942e438124af35cfc57ef1f304e73/doc/lua_api.txt#L5748-L5758

[Skamiz Kazzarch]

Derp, didn't even thought of that.
That should certainly slow down the initial fall, but will it stop it stop the player from acumulating those stupidly large speeds over large distances?